Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:35:29 -0400 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca> To: David Banning <David@Banning.com> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: after firing up X - text screen dies Message-ID: <20000606143529.D28905@cs.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: David Banning's message [Re: Fwd: Re: after firing up X - text screen dies] as of Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:32:41AM -0400 References: <20000606072300.15417.qmail@web3204.mail.yahoo.com> <393CA919.6ADB4E1F@Banning.com>
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On Jun 06, David Banning wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Mathew. > > On Jun 05, David Banning wrote: > > > I had this before - I uninstalled XFree86 and re-installed and it was > > > fixed. > > > This time that won't work. > > > > > > I'm using version 3.4 FreeBSD with XFree 3.3.6 and KDE. > > > > Really? This is FreeBSD? > Yup, it is. > > > > I'd like you to send along a 'uname -a' and the contents of > > your /etc/ttys, > uname -a gives us; > > FreeBSD tracker 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #10: Mon May 15 10:47:01 > GMT 2000 skytracker@tracker:/usr/src/sys/compile/tracker i386 > > and /etc/ttys follows; > # > # $Id: ttys,v 1.16.2.2 1998/09/03 22:14:37 brian Exp $ > # @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89 > # > # name getty type status comments Oh, I get it now. You must have done an upgrade from a 2.2 machine. I'm not sure what to tell you about this, I haven't been in the same situation. Maybe, to eliminate the obvious, you should grab a ttys from the 3.4 release. I imagine that you have binaries leftover from the 2.2 days, possibly even X? Other than that, someone else may have some thoughts. --Mat dot space space To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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